May 01, 2004
"I wanna be an ersatz Ranger..."
Micah Wright is a comic book writer and author of a couple of books full of WWI and WWII posters that he's reworked into intermittently clever antiwar messages. He's a big favorite of Warbloggerwatch and that whole crowd. Whenever he's been criticized about how he expresses his views, he's tended to throw his Army Ranger experience in his critics' faces. (Here's one such response he made to Kevin Parrott.) But today, he came clean about his true military background... sort of. He never got further than ROTC, is the short version. Not sure if you'd call his essay on the subject an apology or an "apology," though. Just follow the links. It's worth it. (And click here for his original "apology," before he deleted the bulk of it when people started checking his facts.)
It's probably not really a big deal, though. He only mentioned the phony-ass Ranger thing to a few people. (Heh... In the last three days, that Google link has filled up with people pointing out that Wright is a prevaricatin' ancestor-raper. I likes the Google!)
Update: Michele has more.
Update 2: I just have to point out his reply when asked by the Washington Post if he'd ever killed anyone:
"That's one of those questions that I really don't like to answer," he says after an uncomfortable pause. "You're shooting at people and other people are shooting and people fall down. Put it this way: I never shot at anybody who hadn't shot at me first."
None of which, when you think about it, is technically a direct lie. Not so much an uncomfortable pause, then, as a productive one.
Posted by Jim Treacher at May 1, 2004 02:29 PM | TrackBack